Promute is a browser addon that automatically mutes twitter accounts sending promotions to your timeline as you scroll by.
It's not very special, but scratches my personal itch and I can't mislay it now that it's published for Chrome and FF.
It does the simplest thing that could possibly work. Within a scroll listener, it ...
- ... identifies promoted tweets by the 'Ad' label beside the menu activator,
- ... opens the tweets context menu,
- ... and clicks the mute button
In personal timelines, it hides promoted tweets as muting there does not remove the tweet in question.
You can review the muted accounts as usual in your twitter settings: https://twitter.com/settings/muted/all
Promute is known to work with current versions of Firefox (v72) and Chrome (v87). Other browsers have not been tested.
- Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/promute/jcglghjinanokeldhiebokopnoppbnnn
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/promute/
- Clone or download & unpack (https://github.com/wwerner/promute/archive/main.zip) this repository,
- open the about:debugging page,
- click "This Firefox" (in newer versions of Firefox),
- click "Load Temporary Add-on",
- then select any file in your extension's directory.
- Clone or download & unpack (https://github.com/wwerner/promute/archive/main.zip) this repository,
- go to chrome://extensions,
- enable
Developer Mode, - click
Load Unpacked, - and select the downloaded repository's root folder
🥳 Enjoy your twitter feed w/o promotions.
Feel free to raise an issue on Github, if it does not work for you.